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Barbelith Superhero Dead Pool 2005

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07:57 / 11.01.05

I don't see why this sort of thing should only apply to real people. Which comic characters do you think will snuff it this year?

My money's on the Blue Beetle. Pretty cool character. Still quite well-liked. Has a lot of potential, but has hardly been used at all in recent years. That seems to be just the kind of superhero DC loves to kill off.

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

09:14 / 11.01.05

Dibs on Gambit, chums.

09:15 / 11.01.05

fock you

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

10:02 / 11.01.05

Gambit's awesome but I'm playing to win, dude.

10:59 / 11.01.05

Does this count for spirits of the already dead that are either exorcised or dispelled? If so, then money on Manchester Black in Justice League Elite.

What about alternate future versions of characters? If so, then money on Superman (grown up Superboy) in Teen Titans.

Only in comics do you have to ask these questions. As for real (as real as can be in a fictional story) deaths, that is a horse of a different color.

Also, who is up for a Resurrection Pool?

11:27 / 11.01.05

I'll take the JSA's Atom Smasher, with a helping of the kind of selfless sacrifice that teaches kids what it means to be a hero. Or somesuch.

lonely as a cloud...

11:33 / 11.01.05

I'd go for Jean Gray in both the resurrection and the dead pool, and then maybe a quid on Magneto too.

Haus of Mystery

11:37 / 11.01.05

I think this year they will kill Superman and they will break Batman's back and it will be really good.

13:03 / 11.01.05

totally, MacGyver. then, when Superman comes back, he'll have a mullet and listen to Van Halen, which will make him Relevant To Young People. similarly, the New Batman will have lots of spikes and stabby things.

13:13 / 11.01.05

Spoiler/Robin - with her death leading Robin to become the new Azbats. Complete with knives for knifehands.

Umm. Elongated Man.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:06 / 11.01.05

I'll second cloudstrife's nominations, with a double-or-quits on both characters dying AND coming back TWICE before year's end.

14:09 / 11.01.05

i recon colusus wil totaly retern

14:17 / 11.01.05

Spoiler/Robin - with her death leading Robin to become the new Azbats. Complete with knives for knifehands.

Spoiler/Robin is already dead. Black Mask tortured her with a power drill, then shot her.

this was in the War Games crossover, which, because of the way these things happen to fall in continuity, apparently happened earlier in the same week as Identity Crisis, where Robin's dad also died. it's "fun," as a Tim Drake fan, watching other books which he's in catching up with continuity. "oh, just FYI, in the week and a half of DCU time between the last issue of Teen Titans and this one, Robin's girlfriend and father have been murdered by two totally different psychos in completely unrelated situations. carry on." it's just so bizarre and contrived.

Gambit's awesome but I'm playing to win, dude.

i think Gambit's a reasonable choice for the as-yet-unnamed "popular 90s X-Man" to be killed off in Millar's Wolverine, unless they totally wuss out and stretch the definition of "popular" enough to include someone like Chamber.

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many people are talking about the possibility that Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash, will bite it in the new Crisis. i'll take that, so my bet's on Jay Garrick (Flash I).

as far as the Resurrection Pool goes, i'll take Psylocke.

14:25 / 11.01.05

Spoiler/Robin is already dead. Black Mask tortured her with a power drill, then shot her.

Oh squirellyfucks. I'm both saddened at suprisednotmuchatall. It's balanced out, though, by Grodd Morrison's addition of the Squire in JLAC who's basically Spoiler with a ponytail.

And a cuter butt.

Yes, I just went there.

14:29 / 11.01.05

Yowch.

Like you could discern a difference in their butts from their generic comic book female bodies.

15:47 / 11.01.05

Emma Frost. Whedon'll resist, but in the long run the status quo can't be restored if she's alive.

16:04 / 11.01.05

Dead Pool: Oh we all know that Lucas Bishop

Dead Pool 2: Bendis is gonna have to kill off someone in New Avengers. I say a beloved supporting character to one of the main characters. So, let's kill Iron Fist.

Resurrection Pool: Psylocke, she ain't in the Book of the Dead.

Career Resurrection Pool (ie, who will become a comic book icon after so many years of not being one?) Jessica Drew. Expect big Spider Woman pushes from the House.

16:58 / 11.01.05

The original Firestorm seems to be alive again, but I can't see that lasting.

And just to chuck in my ten cents worth, I also think Gambit is totally fucked.

17:49 / 11.01.05

Beatle is being mentioned time and again as being an 'important' character in the upcoming new crisis, pre-new-crisis what ever it is. So I'm kind of thinking that he won't die, as they are mentioning him too much.

19:18 / 11.01.05

Beatle is being mentioned time and again as being an 'important' character in the upcoming new crisis, pre-new-crisis what ever it is. So I'm kind of thinking that he won't die, as they are mentioning him too much.

honestly, that would push me in the other direction. nothing like building someone up a bit before you kill them off so that the death seems important.

19:39 / 11.01.05

Perhaps he could be shot by the DC Universe Mark Chapman, who is really a supervillain.

21:25 / 11.01.05

Foggie Nelson, Sharon Carter and Leslie Thompkins are likeable characters who seem to serve the purpose of allowing type-A-headcase lead characters to seem more human, so why shouldn't they die?

This would allow those lead characters to go on a vengeance spree, but stop themselves just before they go too far and learn a valuable lesson about self control that they carry with them for at least a year.

In fact, poor Ralph Dibny never even got to be talked out of killing the murderer of his wife. That's like inappropriately suspecting a girlfriend of murder and not even getting makeup sex.

00:22 / 12.01.05

Millar has described his X-death in Wolverine as that of 'possibly the most important character in the last 10 years of X-Men'.

I've been reading the last 13 or so years, on and off, and ye'd have to put Gambit or Bishop in that category. I'd rather keep the latter.

I reckon Blue B or Nightwing for the DC event death.

Sean the frumious Bandersnatch

00:50 / 12.01.05

If Millar's killing the most important character introduced in the last 10 years of X-Men, than that crosses Gambit (first apperance- August 1990) and Bishop ( November 1991). Maybe he means...I dunno...Onslaught or something?

As for DC, isn't Booster Gold still alive? They're not going to kill Blue Beetle and leave Booster all alone.

My money's on Tom Strong dying this year, what with America's Best Comics winding down and all.

02:02 / 12.01.05

It's about time somebody cleaned Willy Lumpkin's clock as well.

Unless they've already done so, that is.

A

03:46 / 12.01.05

Can't you just see Booster Gold clutching the Beetle's still-warm corpse, tears streaming down his face.

"NOOOOOOO!....... I... never even.... got to tell him..... I loved him!"

I'm Rick Jones, bitch

05:54 / 12.01.05

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06:25 / 12.01.05

Blue Beetle is one of my favourite characters - one of the most developed lesser heroes from the JL Geffin/De Mattias days - so it'd be a shame to kill him off. Booster's been dead already though - what's the deal with him now, is his suit still keeping him alive?

What's Jubilee doing as well? If she is still about, she could bite the dust.

XXII:X:II = XXX

06:49 / 12.01.05

My money's on the Blue Beetle. Pretty cool character. Still quite well-liked. Has a lot of potential, but has hardly been used at all in recent years. That seems to be just the kind of superhero DC loves to kill off.

Ah, but HOW will they kill him? My money's on him being that thrashed body Batman is holding on the cover of "Countdown," the one with Alex Ross over Jim Lee pencils. I think since BB has always been the Charlton answer to Bats they're going to throw down, and of course Batman will win.

I also predict the grudging friendship between Batman and Superman is fucked this year. After Bats skools BB Supes will decide he's gone too far and come asking for his Kryptonite ring back. Batman will decide he's rather partial to it and refuse. Fun ass-kicking will then ensue. There's your CRISIS in a nutsack.

Husk is a goner. Sorry, she's just never been interesting, even mooning after Chamber and Angel. My vote's on Cannonball accidentally doing it. Maybe Leech can be involved somehow, if only to play with himself while it happens.

And John Byrne will also be accidentally deceased by his own fan base when they hold him hostage and refuse him food and water out of a belief he will ascend to godhood if properly motivated to transcend material concerns.

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07:31 / 12.01.05

Interesting, but I'd go the otherway and say that it's Supes or another of the big hitters that take BB out, and Bat's decides that enough is enough, time to get things back in order (too many heroes dying, too many connected to him, plus the whole mindwash thing - he goes all vigilante on the DCU.

11:36 / 12.01.05

I also predict the grudging friendship between Batman and Superman is fucked this year. After Bats skools BB Supes will decide he's gone too far and come asking for his Kryptonite ring back. Batman will decide he's rather partial to it and refuse. Fun ass-kicking will then ensue. There's your CRISIS in a nutsack.

i've heard, actually, that the Crisis is going to boil down to Superman and Batman (+ possibly Wonder Woman) vs the rest of the DCU. basically, the Big Two (or Three) look down from Mt. Olympus and face something of a revolution from the common superfolk.

Spyder Todd 2008

17:07 / 18.01.05

Killed off: Norman Osborn (there's another (ugh) Green Goblin now. For that, JMS deserves 50 lashes of fire)

Not killed off but really really should be: Chris Claremont's career (hackery = suck)

Ressurected: Apocalypse. (I don't know why, I just have a bad feeling some hack will bring him back)

Career ressurection: Klarion the Witch Boy (shit yeah!)

13:31 / 20.01.05

apparently, Psylocke is coming back in Uncanny X-Men #455. please PM me if you need my address to deliver my congratulatory ham.

Cowboy Scientist

06:04 / 22.01.05

My money's on Nightwing, probably will get killed in some big DC event, probably Countdown or Crisis 2.

rabideyemovement

06:57 / 22.01.05

I'd bet that Cable's gonna bite it... Though, if Marvel had real balls, they'd kill off Wolverine for a year or so. If I had to guess a DC character, I'd say The Monolith because just because I don't think the title will last.

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